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The Eve of the Strike, by Jan Toorop, 1889, 📸 by Dylan Buell

my mom just sent me her sign for tomorrow. no notes.

some important tesla news you may have missed on a very busy news day www.cnbc.com/2025/06/13/s... swedish pension fund ap7 blacklists tesla & has sold entire stake

Scott Foster doing Scott Foster things at his the most Scott Foster times #NBA

Speaking as someone who spent their childhood fearing ICE raids: please refrain from spreading rumors about ICE raids. If you cannot /personally/ vouch for the source or confirm the veracity of the claim, then please don't post it on social media. Please, and thank you.

ICE Raids Have Sent Latino Shoppers Into Hiding and Big Brands Are Hurting www.wsj.com/business/ret...

Trump is gutting healthcare, dismantling our education system, and destroying the economy— all while enriching himself. His secret police are kidnapping our friends and neighbors, and disappearing them without due process. Enough is enough. Let's take a stand against tyranny, together: #NoKings!

Reuters photos capture Marines helping with a detention of some kind. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

btw, posts like "time to get our 2nd amendment on" may be protected speech, but there's also a chance it'll get you cited in a bulletin focused on threats to cops quietly circulated to 7000 police agencies. Just food for thought. www.wired.com/story/no-kin...

SCOOP: Details about Saturday’s “No Kings” protest are under watch by domestic intelligence centers, where analysts regularly distribute speculative threat assessments among federal, state, and local agencies, according to an internal alert obtained by WIRED. UNPAYWALLED:

I spoke with the LA-area pastor who confronted masked men conducting an apparent immigration action on church property — men, she says, who said "the whole country is our property." DHS claims ICE wan't there — but I have video, and it may've still been a DHS team. religionnews.com/2025/06/13/i...

Interesting. Polls are showing American voters don’t like the idea of being under military occupation by a wildly angry game show host for no reason www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

If you are an artist (or a musician or a writer or any kind of creative) please keep doing your art and don’t let anyone tell you that “now isn’t the time” because NOW IS EXACTLY THE TIME. Art is power. Art is disruption. Art is resistance. There’s a reason the fascists always come for the artists.

Beyond Bluesky: These are the apps building social experiences on the AT Protocol techcrunch.com/2025/...

Please remember that a police “primer for protesters” that tells you to report suspicious behavior to the police stands a good chance of getting police escalation and making the protest less safe for everyone.

Thank you all SO MUCH for your support. Our incredible Bargaining Committee worked into the night for us and reached a Tentative Agreement at around 5am! 🙏💪🥳🎉 As of now there will be NO STRIKE! Please continue enjoying all our work, knowing you all helped us get here! #unionstrong #voxunion #1u

Really good piece this.

In San Francisco, the march to City Hall begins at Dolores Park, which (for those who don't live here) is between The Mission, a largely Latino neighborhood, and The Castro, a largely gay neighborhood. Always a lovely place for any kind of gathering, but feels very apt right now.

DOGE affiliates Kenneth Jackson and Nate Cavanaugh “disabled and restricted access to the Institute's FOIA system, terminated the employees responsible for processing FOIA requests, and restricted the use of Institute financial resources.”

Border Patrol is continuing raids on farm workers in Ventura County, especially Moorpark and Oxnard. Agents are circling like sharks. Farm workers in areas with heightened activity should check in on each other and take steps to stay safe. Report what you see to us.

Happy FOIAFriday the 13th! NEW issue of my newsletter is out. In March, I filed a #FOIA request with the US Institute of Peace just as DOGE was taking over the agency. This week USIP sent me the most incredible response to a #FOIA request I have ever received. www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

democratic senators double checking the timing of their padilla outrage press briefing so it doesnt interfere with scheduled votes for trump nominees

Going to miss seeing @pftompkins.bsky.social on #AfterMidnight

@rasjbaraka.bsky.social: "This is why city officials & our congressional delegation need to be allowed entry to observe and monitor, any why private prisons pose a very real problem to our state & its constitution... We must put an end to this chaos & not allow this operation to continue unchecked."

California national guard troops and marines deployed to LA to help restore order have told friends and family members they are deeply unhappy about the assignment and worry their only meaningful role will be as pawns in a political battle they don't want to join. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

This strategy that Jeffries (and frankly many rank-and-file Democrats) are following only works if the opposition isn't pitching right down the middle. If you stare down enough fast balls you'll strike out without getting a single hit— and that's exactly what is happening right now

Journalists, once again: Get used to using the word LIE. In fact, put that ish in your editorial policies.